John Kerry: The New Soldier

Just after JOHN KERRY came back from Vietnam, he wrote the book The New Soldier.

The book is out of print. John Kerry does not allow the publisher to reprint it.

To make a rational decision on November 2, you need to have all available facts.

You can now read John Kerry's The New Soldier online for FREE.

http://johnkerrythenewsoldier.blogspot.com/.

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Dean Esmay observes the panic of the Kerry camp and the mainstream media:

You can smell the fear in the Kerry camp: a huge collection of John Kerry's band of brothers hates his guts, including men who served on his Swift Boat, the commanders of the boats that served alongside his, several people who were in combat with him, and every single officer in his chain of command during Vietnam. More and more people are learning of this, and the best Kerry can do is ask Bush to make them shut up!

Meanwhile, the Swifties are showing up on more and more television and radio shows. Furthermore, as Instapundit notes, it appears that a growing number of very well-known reporters are meeting with the Swifties behind the scenes and finding them far more credible than they expected.

But here's the bigger story: The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe are no longer the arbiters of what's important and what's not, of whose criticisms of our politicians will be heard and whose will be ignored.

The Internet has detected the mainstream media as a form of censorship and simply routed around them.

Kerry on Iraq

kerryoniraq.com.

Documenting Kerry's position on Iraq . . . all several thousand of 'em.

Iraqi Bloggers run for Public Office!

Iraqi bloggers (and brothers) Ali and Mohammed Fadhil (of the popular blog "Iraq The Model") are running for the Iraqi National Assembly!

Kerry's Purple Heart from a self-inflicted wound in the buttocks?

Democrats are zealous in their support of free speech when pTerry McAuliffe (DMC Party Chairman) calls George Bush a deserter and John Kerry mocking the President's National Guard service -- but anybody questioning Kerry's record in Vietnam is quickly met with a horde of lawyers, and the First Amendment is put on the back burner. Why is that?

John Kerry's campaign is seeking to muzzle the recent advertisement of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on grounds that they misprepresent the Senator.

The band of veterans has responded to the charges -- the source of which has been posted to the blog Captain's Quarters. The response of the Swift Boat Vet's legal team provides further background on each of the veterans speaking in the ad, as well as a factual account of his military exploits, including some curious (and comical) details on just how Kerry won one of his purple hearts:

Kerry's shrapnel wound "in the buttocks" came not from a mine at all as he falsely reported, but at his own hand. Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, recounts that Kerry's shrapnel wound came not from any mine, but from a self-inflicted wound when Kerry (with no enemy to be seen) threw a concussion grenade into a rice pile and stayed too close. . . .

Most surprisingly, John Kerry himself (while falsely reporting to the Navy and public that he suffered a shrapnel wound from a mine explosion so as to get a third Purple Heart and go home) reflected in his own journal that his buttocks' wound came, not from any mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache by himself or friendly troops (in the absence of any enemy fire). "I got a piece of small grenade in my ass from one of the rice bin explosions." Exhibit 15, Tour, at 313; see also Exhibit 15, Tour, at 317. "Kerry . . . also had the bits of shrapnel and rice extracted from his backside." See also the sworn statement of participants that there was no hostile fire (Exhibits 6, 7, and 10). It also should be noted that the rice extracted from Kerry's backside could hardly be the result of an underwater mine, as Kerry claimed in his operating report.

How's that for a display of military valor?

John Kerry "could not think" on 9/11

"...And as I came in [to a meeting in Sen. Daschle's office], Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid were standing there, and we watched the second plane come in to the building. And we shortly thereafter sat down at the table and then we just realized nobody could think, and then boom, right behind us, we saw the cloud of explosion at the Pentagon..."

- John Kerry, transcript of an interview with Larry King July 8, 2004.

Analysis from blogger:

It should be noted that the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. By Kerry's own words, he and his fellow senators sat there for forty minutes, realizing "nobody could think."

In other words: Sen. Kerry, who criticized President Bush for not rushing out of the Florida classroom for seven minutes, sat paralyzed with his colleagues for a full forty minutes. He is hardly in a position to criticize President Bush for "inaction."

Drinking your way to good health . . .

Two articles from the UK Telegraph:

• "Alcohol sharpens your brain, say researchers", by Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent.
• "A (moderate) toast to better health"

Nothing like scientific research to justify one of my favorite pasttimes.

What do John Kerry's "Band of Brothers" Think of Him?

Swiftboat Veterans for the Truth analyzes a photograph of John Kerry and his "war buddies" which the Kerry campaign used in an advertisement:

This photograph of John Kerry and 19 other Coastal Division 11 Swift boat officers was taken at Ton Son Nhut Air Base on January 22, 1969, immediately following a meeting with General Abrams and Admiral Zumwalt.

The Kerry campaign featured the photograph in an advertisement released in May titled Lifetime. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has contacted surviving members of this group to find out how many actually support John Kerry, and discovered that of 19 Swift boat skippers pictured other than Kerry, 12 consider him unfit, 4 are neutral, two have died, and 1 is working with the Kerry campaign. Four other officers were not present for the photo session; all oppose Kerry.

Only 1 of John Kerry's 23 fellow Swift boat commanders from Coastal Division 11 supports his candidacy today.

Talk about a vote of confidence!